SOLUTION: Please help me factor the trinomials. {{{25x^2 -15x + 2}}}

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Question 964757: Please help me factor the trinomials.



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Quadratic equation (in our case ) has the following solutons:



For these solutions to exist, the discriminant should not be a negative number.

First, we need to compute the discriminant : .

Discriminant d=25 is greater than zero. That means that there are two solutions: .




Quadratic expression can be factored:

Again, the answer is: 0.4, 0.2. Here's your graph:

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